Operating temporary work business

Offering temporary workers
Running temporary work agencies

Description

Operating a temporary work business involves recruiting, vetting, and assigning workers to client organizations for short-term roles, addressing fluctuating labor demands and skill shortages. This strategy provides flexible employment solutions, enabling businesses to maintain productivity during peak periods or staff absences. Essential actions include matching worker skills to client needs, ensuring legal compliance, and managing payroll and contracts, thereby remedying workforce gaps and supporting both employer agility and worker access to diverse job opportunities.

Context

Early, unsophisticated forms of temporary work organizations existed in the nineteenth century in Europe (17th and 18th centuries in the Netherlands and the UK). Modern temporary work business did not emerge until the late 1940s and early 1950s in Belgium, France, the UK, Netherlands, Norway and the USA.

Claim

Many people and whole categories of worker improve their skills through training provided by temporary work business. They gain experience in a variety of work situations, which in turn opens to them greater opportunities of subsequent permanent employment. This development has helped create new jobs.